Originally Posted by
racedo
Ryanair are doing what ever big company does in looking at performance in certain areas and cutting when appropriate. Easyjet do and have done exactly the same thing.
As for "fleet", look at performace in Quarter to June. Easyjet increased pax numbers by 2 Million, Ryanair increased by 4.4 Million, Easyjet load factor dropped by 1.7% year on year to 91.7% where as Ryanair is 96%+.
In the 9 months to June Easyjet added 6.8 million passengers, Ryanair added 10.7 million and is pretty much 50% bigger than Easyjet in number of passengers carried year on year.
Am I correct in saying that both easyJet and Ryanair declare their LF on the basis of seats sold, not on the actual number of PAX who turn up to fly? I've been told that there are people who buy up the £9.99 tickets just in case they need or want to fly to that destination that day.